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Morbidity, mortality and the illness-death model
Ralph Brinks
In this article, we use the illness-death model to present a mathematical framework for studying the compression of morbidity (COM) hypothesis. It turns out that questions about CO…
On characteristics of an ordinary differential equation and a related inverse problem in epidemiology
Ralph Brinks
In this work we examine the properties of a recently described ordinary differential equation that relates the age-specific prevalence of a chronic disease with the incidence and m…
Calculation of the mean duration and age of onset of a chronic disease and application to dementia in Germany
Ralph Brinks
This paper descibes a new method of calculating the mean duration and mean age of onset of a chronic disease from incidence and mortality rates. It is based on an ordinary differen…
A new method for deriving incidence rates from prevalence data and its application to dementia in Germany
Ralph Brinks
This paper descibes a new method for deriving incidence rates of a chronic disease from prevalence data. It is based on a new ordinary differential equation, which relates the chan…